Hmm

This has been an interesting week, in various interesting ways. I really should have blogged more of it, but actually writing about the situations seemed to be down on the priority list.

At this very moment I have finished transcribing an interview from my tape recorder, and I'm now attempting to carve it down into a 650 word feature. The interview features some choice soundbites, the interviewees themselves were charming and I have a rough idea what I'm trying to say and what material I can use to say it. I've just got to sew it together so it looks more like a ballgown and less like Frankenstein's Monster.

This week there was supposed to be a plumber coming around to look at the bathroom leak, but he stood me up Tuesday and Wednesday and has not been heard of since. My landlady is not pleased.

Also on the local front, various sketchy characters have started wandering down from the demolished estate further up the road towards Stratford. I'm thinking I should get the local constabulary on the speed-dial in case they start haunting the corners too close to home on a regular basis.

Thursday and Friday morning were actually pretty misty, but nothing like the thick pea soup that blanketed London and grounded planes for a week this time last year. Outside today it is bright but cool.

Sunday afternoon I had found myself some drainpipe jeans going very cheaply at H&M, so I snapped up two pairs. I've been meaning to buy more jeans for a while, but I couldn't find anything good enough to justify the price until Sunday. I like these jeans. For some reason they fit better than my Cheap Monday jeans, which ironicly weren't as cheap.

Enough procrastination. Back to the feature.

Over and out.

-J